How Techies Are Transforming San Francisco

A generation of technology workers is bringing startups, venture capitalists—and high real-estate prices

By

Sarah Tilton

Jan. 9, 2014 7:33 p.m. ET

Twitter's headquarters. A high-rise apartment building where visitors sign-in on iPads. A jar of handcrafted applesauce for $14. Skyrocketing real-estate prices.

Nearly five decades after the Summer of Love transformed San Francisco into the epicenter of the hippie movement, a new generation is redefining this city's culture again. No longer content to live and work in the quiet suburbs of Palo Alto and Menlo Park 30 miles south, thousands of young tech workers are migrating to the city, seeking a more urban,...